Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross …. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …

internet as a source of information derive relatively less life satisfaction from the same level of income. Using panel data … material aspirations via fostering relative concerns in the society. The empirical findings shed further light on the income-happiness …

This paper analyzes the e ffect of regional income inequality within countries on individual life satisfaction. We use … that higher regional income inequality leads to lower life satisfaction in OECD countries. In non-OECD countries, we find …

people s migration decisions and their subjective well-being from 2006 to 2010 for Germany, we control for selection bias by …

German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating … subjective equivalence scales using "life satisfaction" as a proxy variable for "utility". The cross-sectional scale estimates …

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness … happiness. Analyses of responses by future non-respondents substantiate this finding and shed light on a key question for … unwilling might respond more negatively when being asked about their satisfaction with life. …

satisfaction of likely smokers. Overall, smoking bans are not related to subjective well-being, but increase the life satisfaction …